Hamburger Zentrum für Sprachkorpora

Audio recordings in Spanish with 23 German/Spanish simultaneous bilingual children living in Germany and attending the Spanish complementary school at the first level. 1-6 recordings with each child, with 11 children also before the children attended the Spanish complementary school. All recordings feature elicited speech: A picture naming task, a story telling task, a morphosyntactic test, a lexical test, and the HAVAS 5. Rich metadata on language use and attitudes in the family submitted by the parents.

Language: German, Spanish

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Audio recordings of prompted, read and spontaneous speech data from L1 Catalan speakers from Barcelona. The data is stratified according to three different city districts and three age groups. Speakers' age vary from approx. 5 to 45 years.

Language: Catalan

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Audio and video recordings of various types of community interpreted discourse (doctor-patient communication, simulated doctor-patient communication, courtroom communication) in German (simulated and authentic doctor-patient communication) and US (courtroom communication) institutions with varying community languages. Video recordings only exist for the simulated communication. For the authentic interpreted doctor-patient communication, no audio files will be made available.

Language: German, English, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Haitian

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Audio and video recordings of three lectures in Portuguese, one simultaneously and two consecutively professionally interpreted into German. For the simultaneouly interpreted lecture there are different recordings and transcriptions for the participants.

Language: German, Portuguese

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Audio recordings of various kinds of doctor-patient communication in hospitals. There are both monolingual conversations in German, Portuguese and Turkish, recorded in the respective country, and interpreted conversations recorded in Germany (i.e. in German-Turkish, German-Portuguese, and German-Portuguese/Spanish), about 15-20 recordings of each kind. The persons interpreting are bilingual hospital employees or relatives of the patients, who are all adults living in Germany but with varying knowledge of German.

Language: German, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish

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Audio recordings of semi-structured interviews with bilingual speakers (aged 16-89 years) from various geographical areas on the Faroe Islands. For 37 of the 56 subjects there are recordings in both their L1 Faroese and their L2 Danish. Only the Danish data is available.

Language: Danish

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Audio recordings (semi-spontaneous interviews) with German/Italian and German/French bilingual speakers aged approx. 15-55 years at the recording sessions. The simultaneous bilinguals with German and French/Italian as L1s have been recorded twice, i.e. once for each language. The successive bilinguals with German as L1 and French/Italian as L2, or French/Italian as L1 and German as L1 all have AOAs between 11 and 38 years and have been recorded using their L2.

Language: German, French, Italian

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Audio and video recordings of experimental/read and spontaneous speech from adult speakers of Porteño Spanish in Argentina. Speakers are 18-69 years old and from two geographic areas. For the intonational experiments, there are audio recordings only, whereas some of the free interviews and map tasks feature video recordings. The material used as stimuli in the experiments is available with references encoded in the transcriptions.

Language: Spanish

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Religious and secular prose, law texts, non-fiction literature (geographical, theological, historic, natural science), diploma.

Language: English, German, Latin, Old Swedish, Swedish

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Audio recordings of German/Polish bilingual and Polish monolingual adults (16-46 years). Recordings of semi-spontaneous data (3 topics) and renarration of a picture story.

Language: Polish

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The Nganasan Spoken Language Corpus (NSLC) has been created as part of Corpus based grammatical studies on Nganasan project (supported by the German Research Grant; WA3153/2-1). The Spoken Nganasan Corpus contains the same text samples in at least three languages: The original text in Nganasan with translations mostly into Russian and English, sometimes also into German. The corpus contains 55 communications from 15 different speakers. The bulk of the language material to be integrated, glossed and annotated has been collected by several researchers and is available in audio format. The transcription data as well as the metadata of the corpus are processed and stored in EXMARaLDA format.

Language: Nganasan, Russian

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Audio recordings of five German and five Spanish speaking monolingual children. For the German children there are about 30 recordings (interviewer/child interaction) per child, on an average starting at 9 months and ending at 3 years; for the Spanish children there are on average 15 recordings per child ending at 2 years.

Language: German, Spanish

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Audio and Video recordings of four German/Spanish bilingual children starting at approx. 1 year and 6 months and ending at age 6-7 years with about 100 recordings (interviewer/child interaction) of each child, half of them in each language.

Language: German, Spanish

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Law texts, chap books, miscellaneous literature in Old Swedish and Old Danish.

Language: Old Swedish, Old Danish

License: FID-AKA (restricted)

Audio recordings of three German/Spanish simultaneous bilingual children starting at approx. 1 year and ending at 2 or 3 years. There are 20-50 recording sessions (interviewer/child interaction) per child, half of them conducted in German and half in Spanish.

Language: German, Spanish

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Audio recordings of 15 German subjects in Spain (5 to 36 years old) with Spanish as L2 and AOA > 2 years. Recording sessions in Spanish based on picture naming and story telling etc. Rich metadata on language use and attitudes in the family submitted by the parents.

Language: German, Spanish

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Audio recordings of evocative field experiments (picture story, retelling, spontaneous discourse etc.) with Turkish/German bilingual children and monolingual Turkish / monolingual German children as control data.

Language: German, Turkish

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Bilingual radio broadcasts of Scandinavian speakers interacting using their respective languages. The speakers have Danish, Norwegian or Swedish as L1 and varying receptive knowledge of the other languages.

Language: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

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Bilingual radio broadcasts of Scandinavian speakers interacting using their respective languages. Most speakers have Danish or Swedish as L1 and varying receptive knowledge of the other languages and live in the Oeresund region.

Language: Danish, Swedish

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Audio recordings of adult speaker of Northern German varieties.

Language: German, Low German

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Video recordings in German of eight bilingual children with L1 Turkish and L2 German with AOA of 3-4 years. Several recordings of spontaneous speech (play) during 7-28 months at ages approx. 3-6,5 years, and of elicited language with focus on article usage. Comparable data for the TÜ_DE-L1-Korpus.

Language: German

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Audio recordings of interactions where mental maps of various dialects of (spoken) German were elicited from adult subjects belonging to three age groups and various geographical regions within the German-speaking area. The mental maps produced are available via a GIS web application.

Language: German

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